Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems, translated into English

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Author

Weismann, August, 1834-1914

Title

Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation

Credits

Produced by Charlene Taylor, Elizabeth Oscanyan, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Genetics

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48132

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48132

Release Date

February 1, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ESSAYS UPON HEREDITY AND KINDRED BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
2. 2.AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
3. 3.EDITORS’ PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.THE DURATION OF LIFE. — PREFACE.
6. 6.I. THE DURATION OF LIFE. — APPENDIX. — Note 1. The Duration of Life among Birds. — Note 2. The Duration of Life among Mammals. — Note 3. The Duration of Life among Mature Insects. — Note 4. The Duration of Life of the Lower Marine Animals. — Note 5. The Duration of Life in Indigenous Terrestrial and Fresh-water Mollusca. — Note 6. Unequal Length of Life in the two Sexes. — Note 7. Bees. — Note 8. Death of the Cells in higher Organisms. — Note 9. Death by Sudden Shock. — Note 10. Intermingling during the Fission of Unicellular Organisms [30] . — Note 11. Regeneration. — Note 12. The Duration of Life in Plants. — Note 13. — Footnotes for the Appendix to Essay I.
7. 7.ON HEREDITY. — PREFACE.
8. 8.II. ON HEREDITY. — Footnotes for Essay II.
9. 9.LIFE AND DEATH. — PREFACE.
10. 10.III. LIFE AND DEATH. — Footnotes for Chapter III.
11. 11.CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM, &c. — PREFACE.
12. 12.CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM, &c. — CONTENTS.
13. 13.IV. THE CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM AS THE FOUNDATION OF A THEORY OF HEREDITY. — Introduction. — I. The Germ-plasm. — II. The Significance of the Polar Bodies. — III. On the Nature of Parthenogenesis. — NOTE. — Footnotes for Essay IV.
14. 14.SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, ETC. — PREFACE.
15. 15.SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, etc. — CONTENTS. — APPENDICES.
16. 16.V. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION. — Footnotes for Essay V. — APPENDICES. — Footnotes for Appendices for Essay V.
17. 17.ON THE NUMBER OF POLAR BODIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN HEREDITY. — PREFACE.
18. 18.ON THE NUMBER OF POLAR BODIES, &c. — CONTENTS.
19. 19.VI. ON THE NUMBER OF POLAR BODIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN HEREDITY. — I. Parthenogenetic and Sexual Egg. — II. The Significance of the Second Polar Body. — III. The Foregoing Considerations Applied To the Male Germ-Cells. — IV. The Foregoing Considerations applied To Plants. — V. Conclusions with regard to Heredity. — VI. Recapitulation. — Footnotes for Essay VI.
20. 20.VII. — Footnotes for Essay VII.
21. 21.VIII. THE SUPPOSED TRANSMISSION OF MUTILATIONS. — Footnotes for Essay VIII.
22. 22.INDEX. — THE END. — Transcriber's notes:

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